February 2022

Area basketball roundup

Prep girls Central Kansas League Hillsboro 51, Halstead 31 HILLSBORO – The Halstead Dragon girls couldn’t overcome 22 percent shooting, falling to Hillsboro 51-31 Monday night in a Central Kansas League make-up game in Hillsboro. Hillsboro led 25-16 at the half and put things away with a 16-7 third quarter.

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Black innovators who reshaped American gardening, farming

The achievements of George Washington Carver, the 19th century scientist credited with hundreds of inventions, including 300 uses for peanuts, have landed him in American history textbooks. But many other agricultural practices, innovations and foods that traveled with enslaved people from West Africa — or were developed by their descendants — remain unsung, despite having revolutionized the way we eat, farm and garden.

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